Summer 2024 Information & Technology General Internship

About Our Internships

Our paid internship program is thoughtfully curated to provide students experience and exposure to the health professional industry. Interns will be given the opportunity to get hands-on experience with real work projects, build meaningful relationship and connections within the organization, and experience our mission and enterprise goals through our program curriculum centered on our leadership model (Personal, People, Thought, and Results Leadership). To see more about our internship program, check out this video.

Our Summer 2024 Internship is June 10-August 16, 2024.

As interns at Blue Shield of California, interns:

* Participate in impactful projects during their 10-week program

* 10-week curriculum designed to familiarize interns with BSC, leadership development, exposure to the health care industry, and more

* Are invited to participate in BSC employee events such as Employee Resource Groups, Employee volunteer activities, and more.

Your Role

The Information Technology team oversees our data & analytics, strategic planning & performance, IT infrastructure services, IT shared services, IT applications, and information security functions and responsibilities at Blue Shield. IT is a business partner that provides delivery excellence and leverages technology advancement to ensure Blue Shield is an information-led organization, in a secure, connected healthcare ecosystem. The Information Technology Strategy and Planning Intern will report to the Chief of Staff for the Chief Information Officer. In this role you will be developing strategy frameworks and planning tools that help the Chief Information Officer, their leadership team, and the Information Technology organization execute on Blue Shield's highest priorities in a focused effective way.

Your work in the Information Technology organization will include:

• Executing on a communications strategy framework that ensures the right audiences get the right message at the right time, from individual contributors in the technology organization to Blue Shield's board of directors and external audiences
• Developing presentations for the board of directors, operating committee, and strategy committee
• Working with the Information Technology leadership team to execute on Blue Shield's highest priorities. This includes driving team meetings to their intended purpose and working with team members to make sure appropriate action is completed in a timely manner.

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Actively pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree communications or business management discipline
• Minimum 1 year of related professional experience, project, or coursework
• Strong communication skills required, particularly writing for publication.
• Proactive, solution focused mindset with demonstrated creative, problem-solving skills
• Passionate about changing healthcare and challenging the status quo to advance health equity

Pay Range:

The pay range for this role is: $ 25.00 to $ 30.00 for California.

Note:

Please note that this range represents the pay range for this and many other positions at Blue Shield that fall into this pay grade. Blue Shield salaries are based on a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, location (California, Bay area, or outside California), and current employee salaries for similar roles.